Cats, good books, AI, and religious walking in the city of Sofia
Happy to report that the simple and strong goal to make 1 pull-up by the end of the year seems to be sticking. I created a plan. First step is re-learning how to hang from a bar. I already did 6 hanging exercises, which is about 6 more than I did last year. I realize that there’s a big difference between hanging and being able to actually move in the upward direction. Wish me luck.
I got addicted to Saturdays.
My days used to be all the same, with some slight differences in the type of workload between work and weekend days. You can’t shake off unfinished work, health problems, or general stress just because it’s a weekend day. Most problems are sticky, like tar, and unrelated to the day of the week.
What changed?
I’m not sure how but between the daily steps, kids growing up, and the discovery that I can occasionally shut down Slack, a new experience became available to me: the afternoon nap. I’m taking a nap every Saturday afternoon.
I recommend the experience.
I had a walk today and according to some of the photos, the sky was actually visible. It felt sad and gloomy.
This is from my neighborhood, I want to go to that place and just paint over. However, there’s a school nearby, so it’s a lost cause.
Essentially me.
Moskva means Moscow in Bulgarian. The owners didn’t dare to remove these socialist signs. This was once a cinema. However, when I first went to a cinema in the mid-80s, I think it had already closed. There used to be another cinema on the opposite side of the street, which functioned until the early 90s, and was fine. It’s now a supermarket.
Overall, had a nice walk of almost 15K steps. Couldn’t capture any optimistic photos but I think these are pretty in their own way.
I set my annual reading goal to be 71 books. I picked 71 because it is a prime number and is also right below 72, which is 6 books per month. 6 is a good number of books to read per month. It won’t stress me out and will let me finish some of the thicker books on my shelves. I have plenty.
Goodreads, despite being less buggy with the Reading Challenge this year, doesn’t have a good estimation for how ahead of schedule I am. Their two screens argue that I’m either 2 or 3 books ahead. The mobile app also thinks it’s 3.
15.96 days have passed, and 15.96/(365/71) = 3.1. That’s the number of books I should have read by now. Since I’ve read five, I’m 1.9 books ahead. And 1.9 books is not quite two or three books. It’s not that bad, compared to last year, when it announced I’m 70 books behind schedule on day 1.
A good reminder about the old truth that are only 2 hard problems in programming – naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors.
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